Lazy professors and dumbed-down classes

Academia is one reason why Americans are economically, politically, and historically illiterate. Not only do I continually encounter intellectually lazy history and government professors who never stop espousing the benefits of the warfare/welfare state, they've dumbed down their classes. The tales coming from my students of how easy their classes are is amazing. An e-mail was sent out last year about the inordinate amount of A's given out. The e-mail did not apply to me, since only a few students (unlike enrollees or attendees) earn an A in my class every semester. Last semester, one student wanted daily grades like some of her other classes. I told her that wasn't desirable on my part, and I reminisced on the way home about the last time I gave anything close to daily grades: when I taught two years of junior high in the early 80s.

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